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business practice is incredibly anticonsumer and profit driven, and is much different from their previous,
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respectable scheme where you paid directly for the item you wanted.
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Essential also tries to market itself as a mod library. Because of this, if another mod wants to use something
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Essential offers, all users of the mod are forced to install Essential alongside the original mod. There is no way
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around this. If you are a mod developer, please look elsewhere for the features Essential offers. Their libraries,
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Elementa, Vigilance, and UniversalCraft can all be used individually without the need of Essential, should you
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need to use them. However, Polyfrost has alternative libraries that may be more useful, such as their
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UniversalCraft fork, OneConfig (Vigilance competitor), and PolyUI (Elementa competitor). I especially recommend
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avoiding Vigilance in general, due to its myriad of issues that are known and acknowledged by the Essential devs,
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yet have not been fixed even years later.
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Essential has tracking and data collection. This information may be shared to third parties as can be read in
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their [privacy policy](https://essential.gg/privacy-policy), as well as what data they collect.
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Lastly, Essential is a half-baked mod. Almost every promise for new features has yet to be delivered since and
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Essential is a half-baked mod. Almost every promise for new features has yet to be delivered since and
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before its release. Additionally, the features Essential currently has are purposefully made to be worse than
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other mods. Most obvious of this is their built in zoom, which despite all of its features being copied from
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Patcher, most of its functionality and customization was not added as to make it "less intimidating and easier
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to do everything, especially when it breaks everything else along the way. Using a mod loader means you have the
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freedom to use whatever mods you want. Don't feel tied down by Essential!
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Essential also tries to market itself as a mod library. Because of this, if another mod wants to use something
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Essential offers, all users of the mod are forced to install Essential alongside the original mod. There is no way
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around this. If you are a mod developer, please look elsewhere for the features Essential offers. Their libraries,
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Elementa, Vigilance, and UniversalCraft can all be used individually without the need of Essential, should you
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need to use them. There are other libraries such as OmniCore (UniversalCraft competitor), OneConfig (Vigilance
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competitor), and PolyUI (Elementa competitor). I especially recommend avoiding Vigilance in general, due to its
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myriad of issues that are known and acknowledged by the Essential devs, yet have not been fixed even years later.
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Don't feel forced to use Essential!
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## Essential Features

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